Letters to the Editor

Give shelter supervisor second chance

I have been a veterinary assistant for a local vet for the past 20 years, and have had numerous occasions each month to interact with Dave Vane from the St. George Animal Shelter. In my interactions with Dave throughout the years, he has always been respectful to the animals and has been very helpful when we had a situation that needed his expertise.

I think many of the current problems arise from not enough funding. I am sure Dave would love to have unlimited funding to enlarge or remodel the shelter, as well as enabling him to take every sick animal to a veterinarian. But that is not the reality of the situation.

I would hope that the city would work to improve the funding for the shelter. But I would also hope that the mayor, city council members and the police chief would work to find a solution that would address the issues and still retain Dave Vane as an employee of St. George city.

Give him a time frame to work on the issues and improve them. Untie his hands with the fiscal restraints that he has been under and together work to make the animal shelter bigger and better than ever.

Cheri Olds

Hurricane

Mayor says thanks for help with bike tour

On Aug. 5 and 6 the Larry H. Miller Tour of Utah Bike Race made its Southern Utah debut, with Cedar City and Brian Head as host venues. The race events were a tremendous success for our local area, generating excitement and enjoyment for thousands of local citizens and visitors. The impact of the Tour of Utah foes not stop there. Our communities were featured to more than 35 million viewers through online, print and television media. This was an opportunity for the world to discover what our citizens already know; Iron County is an amazing place to visit or call home.

As mayor of Brian Head, I want to thank the citizens of our neighboring communities for their support as we hosted the Stage One Start on Aug. 6. Specifically, I wish to commend the many volunteers from the city of Parowan. Without their unselfish involvement, we could not have hosted our guests and the riders the way they deserved.

Also, we must acknowledge Byron Linford, events coordinator for Cedar City, and Maria Twitchell, executive director of the Cedar City/Brian Head Tourism Bureau, for actively pursuing and successfully bringing the Tour of Utah to Iron County. Their enthusiastic and tenacious efforts to bring the tour to our area will have positive benefits for our communities for years to come.

H. C. Deutschlander

Mayor, Brian Head

Sen. Lee standing up for Constitution

I am a little tired of the multitude of letters dissing Mike Lee. He is making a small effort to stop or delay the socialist, fascist juggernaut of the current administration.

The Affordable Care Act is anything but that. The more than 2,000 pages of the act are totally unmanageable. How does one ensure existing conditions exclude unions and other associates and government workers make sense or ensure a budget? Our current president thinks the Constitution and laws are on a cafeteria plan. He chooses which one to enforce and which ones to ignore. If we all used this philosophy we could avoid all our sins except a few of our favorites.

There is a better plan for health, by ridding fraud and this unaffordable act and start over with some eye on the budget and complete oversight.

T. G. "Bud" Mahas

Salt Lake City

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Letters to the Editor

Give shelter supervisor second chanceI have been a veterinary assistant for a local vet for the past 20 years, and have had numerous occasions each month to interact with Dave Vane from the St.